India opens 11 new medical colleges

The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has recently inaugurated 11 new medical colleges in Tamil Nadu. The shortage of doctors has remained an issue for a very long time and the current government is making it a priority to address this critical gap. In 2014, the country had 387 medical colleges. In the last seven years only, this number has gone up to 596 medical colleges, marking an increase of 54 per cent. The new medical colleges are being established at an estimated cost of about Rs 4000 crore, out of which around Rs 2145 crore has been provided by the Union government and rest by the Tamil Nadu government. The districts in which the new Medical Colleges are being established are Virudhunagar, Namakkal, The Nilgiris, Tiruppur, Thiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Dindigul, Kallakurichi, Ariyalur, Ramanathapuram and Krishnagiri.